Reed Elsevier Annual Review 2002




			Since 1905, Variety has been the entertainment and media industry’s premier source of business news and information. The Variety stable includes Daily Variety (launched in 1933), Variety Gotham and Variety.com, reaching over 65,000 industry leaders in print and 54,000 online. These publications continued to outperform their market through editorial quality and managing advertising yield, increasing revenues by 9% in advertising markets down by 15% overall.

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Reed Exhibitions’ Infosecurity is the sector’s leading series of trade shows for IT professionals with security responsibilities, an area of high growth. The show attracted over 30,000 visitors and 650 exhibitors in 2002. The show’s own branded IT security news programme keeps the brand both visible and valuable to exhibitors and visitors between events.

Elsevier, the leading weekly economics and news magazine in The Netherlands, has increased its sales through the introduction of regular special supplements covering topics such as investment, health and education. As well as attracting additional streams of advertising revenue Elsevier specials have helped to increase the circulation of the title. Elsevier specials are provided as free supplements to subscribers, and are also sold on newsstands throughout The Netherlands.


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